Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Social Service workers from Phillips Brooks House will canvass in House dining halls and knock at doors for the rest of this week in a drive to sign up more men for work at 48 social agencies in the Boston area...
...techniques like forums and lectures," Rappaport says, "have failed to stimulate people to positive action on social problems." The series will therefore be presented in documentary form...
...Temperance Union-most of them more than 70 years old-attended its convention in Portland, Ore., clucked in horror as plump, 65-year-old Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, its perennial president, reported: "This is a time of overpowering, universal and revolting drunkenness among women of all ages, weights and social positions . . . Among the 3,750,000 chronic alcoholics and problem drinkers in the U.S., more than 680,000 are women...
...which never mention anything spent for liquor) or their personalities-whichever is in worst repair. They like to say that their readers are a jump ahead of them; the fact is that the Journal is out to educate women just as fast as it can, while rattling many a social skeleton in public...
...ruins of the war, Faulkner shows the mean-spirited and hard-driving Snopeses, poor whites who absorbed the cheap commercialism of the carpetbaggers, rising to economic and social power by defeating the Sartoris clan, impotent aristocrats talking about the code of chivalry but unable to bring it to life. Faulkner is especially adept at portraying the creatures of the decayed South: Gowan Stevens, a gentleman of the old school, who learned to drink in a Virginia college but not to overcome his cowardice; Flem Snopes, who would not hesitate to stamp on every living creature to satisfy his greed...